CONFERENCE: 2011 Rustbelt RNA Meeting to be held October 21-22, 2011 in Dayton, OH

2011年锈带RNA会议将于2011年10月21日至22日在俄亥俄州代顿的皇冠假日酒店举行。锈带RNA会议是中西部地区RNA研究人员的主要会议。锈带RNA会议创建于1999年，旨在解决中西部RNA研究人员对区域性会议的需求，该会议不仅包括教师，还包括博士后研究员和学生（实习生）。锈带RNA会议的学术目标是为中西部的RNA研究人员提供一个廉价、高水平、跨学科的会议。除了RNA作为转录产物、翻译模板或剪接体和核糖体的结构/催化成分的经典作用之外，新的功能不断被发现。与此同时，用于研究RNA的方法也变得越来越多样化，从合成和物理化学到生物化学、遗传学和生物物理方法，一直到细胞成像和计算方法。因此，研究小组需要一个论坛，在那里他们可以听到和讨论新的成果和技术，这些成果和技术涵盖了广泛的RNA研究领域，最终可以促进单个实验室的目标。在锈带RNA会议上提出的主题是从提交的摘要中选择的。更广泛的影响锈带RNA会议的更广泛的影响是实习生和初级教师的发展。锈带RNA会议强烈强调学员的参与。锈带RNA会议的一个主要特点是来自广泛机构（从大型研究密集型大学到小型本科学院）的研究生和本科生的参与。除了提供与主要研究人员和其他受训者互动的机会外，锈带RNA会议还为受训者提供了宝贵的经验，让他们在教育和支持的氛围中展示他们的研究。学员占海报和口头报告的大多数（约90%）。为了鼓励高水平的演讲，我们会为优秀的口头和海报演讲颁发奖项。最后，锈带RNA会议是一个优秀的论坛，初级研究人员的网络，以及展示他们的新兴研究项目和发展新的合作。

Intellectual Merit The 2011 Rustbelt RNA Meeting will be held October 21-22, 2011, at the Crowne Plaza in Dayton, Ohio. The Rustbelt RNA Meeting is the major Midwest regional meeting of RNA researchers. The Rustbelt RNA Meeting was created in 1999 to address the need of RNA researchers in the Midwest for a regional meeting that includes not only faculty but also postdoctoral fellows and students (trainees). The intellectual objective of the Rustbelt RNA Meeting is to provide an inexpensive, high-caliber, interdisciplinary meeting for RNA researchers in the Midwest. Novel functions beyond the classical role for RNA as a product of transcription, a template for translation, or as structural/catalytic components of spliceosomes and ribosomes are constantly being discovered. At the same time, the methods used to study RNA are becoming increasingly diverse, ranging from synthetic and physical chemistry to biochemistry, genetics, and biophysical approaches all the way to cellular imaging and computational methods. Consequently, research groups need a forum where they can hear and discuss new results and techniques covering a broad range of RNA research areas that can ultimately result in furthering an individual lab's aims. The topics presented at the Rustbelt RNA Meeting are selected from the submitted abstracts.Broader Impacts The broader impact of the Rustbelt RNA Meeting is in trainee and junior faculty development. The Rustbelt RNA Meeting strongly emphasizes trainee participation. One major feature of the Rustbelt RNA Meeting is the participation of graduate and undergraduate students from a wide range of institutions (from large research-intensive universities to small, primarily undergraduate colleges). In addition to offering opportunities for interactions with principal investigators and other trainees, the Rustbelt RNA Meeting provides invaluable experience for trainees to present their research in an educational and supportive atmosphere. Trainees account for the majority (approximately 90%) of both poster and oral presentations. To encourage top-notch presentations, prizes are awarded for outstanding oral and poster presentations. Finally, the Rustbelt RNA Meeting is an excellent forum for junior investigators to network as well as to showcase their emerging research programs and develop new collaborations.